Quote Originally Posted by Connor View Post
This is because they do their homogenisation in weird ‘class pairs’. Obviously comparing Sage and Astrologian doesn’t work because they aren’t ‘paired’, but if you compare Sage with Scholar suddenly you start to realise it’s the essentially same job twice. Likewise comparing White Mage and Astrologian. For other roles like phys ranged, Bard and Dancer are paired, so looking at their skill sets they have a ton of equivalents and very similar skills overall.

It’s maybe not as black and white as being
‘absolute homogenous’ or ‘none whatsoever’, but there are definitely some very heavily homogenised designs between the ‘class pairs’ they’ve set up.
I don't feel the same playing any of the healers. They all have some basic skills but what I am doing and the feel of it changes a lot. I don't play AST the same as WHM, even if they have the same 4 basic GCD heals and some basic concepts overlap.